Library Catalogs

To find items at the COD Library about the Economic History of some country/state, go to the Library Catalog page, do a KEYWORD search, where the name of the location goes in the first box, and then type ECONOMIC CONDITIONS in the second box, and then click on the Submit button.

Article Indexes

You must have a valid College of DuPage library
card to access the electronic indexes and databases from off-campus.

Academic OneFile (formerly Expanded Academic Index ASAP). An index to over 2500 magazines and journals covering a variety of topic areas including anthropology. This database provides references, abstracts, and many times the full-text of articles. A COD library card is required for off-campus use.

Social / Demographic / Economic Statistics. Subdivided into local-, county-, and state-level electronic and printed COD resources. Although developed for marketing classes, it can certainly be utilized for other purposes as well.

Index of Economic Freedom. Reference HB 95 .I 48. For each country, there is a brief discussion of the country's tade policy, fiscal burden of government, property rights, government intervention in the economy, wages and prices, capital flows, and business regulations.

Finding Economic History Information about Other Countries

GENERAL OVERVIEWS

And be sure to look at the other Reference books listed on the Economics Research Guide above here.

Country Studies, from the U.S. Library of Congress. Select a country, then check the Table of Contents for the section on the nation's economy.

Encyclopaedia Britannica. Reference AE 5 .E 363. Look up the entry for the country, which should have an economic section. There are other big Encyclopedia sets there as well.

Some countries were colonies for a long time, so there might not be much information about them very far back. There will be more information about many countries after the Second World War (post-1945), when many countries became independent from their colonial rulers, and more information about their economic conditions became available.

Academic One File, Academic Search Premier, Business Source Complete, History Study Center, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times

At the database search screens, you can click on the link for the ADVANCED SEARCH. At the next ADVANCED SEARCH screen, in the first search box, type in the name of the country or region, and in the second search box, type in: economic conditions or economic history or economy

Then be sure to scroll down below the search boxes and click on the FULL TEXT search limitation feature, so that you get back citations that have links to the full text of the articles.

For other general information , you can do a Google search using the search phrase, “economic history of country name “. You may not be able to use that particular web site or page, but maybe it will point you to other quality information sources.

To find regular books in the General Circulation Collection, CLICK HERE to do a KEYWORD search then in the first line change the drop down menu to SUBJECT, and in the search box type in ECONOMIC CONDITIONS, then on the second line change the drop down menu to SUBJECT, and in the search box type in the name of the country that you want to find books about.